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Friday 19 June 2009

Affiliate Marketing Success Tips!


Affiliate marketing can truly offer a great opportunity for
almost anyone regardless of background or financial status
to succeed at making good money and even huge money from
the internet. Since it is so easy to start as an affiliate
marketer expect lots of competition and do not expect it to
be an easy ride. Most people randomly pick any affiliate
program and throw up an ad on adwords or somewhere else and
when they do not make any profits they complain that
affiliate marketing does not work. This is simply not true.
There are many people and each day the number grows that
are making a very handsome living from selling other
people's products and services. However this small, select
group of super affiliates do things very differently from
the mass of affiliate marketers that are failing. Here are
some tips that most super affiliates follow to make big
money online:

Tip 1: Choose your affiliate products carefully.

Top affiliate marketer select affiliate products
very carefully and are quite strict about most promotions.
Never promote a garbage product as the refund rates will be
very high and these promotions do not work well long term.
Also it can give your website a bad reputation which can
affect traffic levels long term. You need to pick products
that are proven to work, look for valid testimonials on the
sales page. Also make sure the sales page looks
professional and is informative. There are many affiliate
networks you can go to pick affiliate products including
Clickbank and Commission Junction. There are also many
great independently operated affiliate programs that can be
worth signing up for. When selecting products from
Clickbank look for products that are fairly new and have a
gravity over 10.

Tip 2: Send targeted traffic to affiliate pages.

The affiliate marketing model is simple. Find a
quality affiliate program and send targeted traffic to your
affiliate pages. However this traffic still needs to
convert at a high enough rate for you to make decent
profits. After all you are in business to make money not
lose it. Google adwords while very competitive is probably
the best first choice to get your traffic from. Remember to
keep your keywords very targeted and do not bid too high
unless the keyword is super targeted and justifies a higher
bid. With adwords you need to keep in mind the importance
of a good ad quality score. If your keywords receive a good
quality score then you can reduce bids slightly and still
maintain the same positions and get clicks at a lower cost.
A good strategy is to run 10 test campaigns using product
review style pages on your own site accruing $10 worth of
clicks with different products from different niches.
Certain niches simply do better than others so do not just
promote from a single niche. Your goal should be to make at
least $20 in sales from each campaign or a 100% ROI (Return
On Investment). Expect to have some losers. Even if you
find one winner then it can make up for the losing
campaigns as the profits can be good and can last a while.
You only need to find a handful of winning campaigns to
create good income so do not get discouraged by a few
losing campaigns. Also the experience you gain will teach
you a great deal about how to identify and create winning
campaigns faster. Try some of these affiliate marketing
tips to help you make more money from the net.